Telecommunications Americas articles from June 2001

Telecommunications Americas archives from June 2001

A Roll of the Dice.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 1, 2001... Every year the editors at Telecommunications[R] magazine anticipate yet dread the time in early April when we take the list of start-up companies we have met throughout the year and start whittling down. It's a long and sometimes mind-bending...

Single Code Modulation: A Transparent Extension.(BridgeWave Communicationspartnerships with BreezeCom and Scientific Atlanta)(Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 2001... SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Newcomer BridgeWave Communications is a testament to the adage that you don't have to necessarily reinvent the wheel to be innovative. BridgeWave's SCM (single code modulation) is a hybrid analog/digital modulation scheme...

Fixed Wireless on the Move.(Clearwire Technologies)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Think that Sprint and WorldCom are the only fixed wireless games in town? Think again. Clearwire Technologies, seeking to expand its offerings into the licensed 2.5-GHz market, secured $97 million in new financing and carved out a strategic...

High Times for Broadband Cable.(Nortel Networks and TollBridge Technologies in licensing pact)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Times could never be better for broadband cable, especially in Asia and Europe. Nortel Networks and TollBridge Technologies have joined forces to build one of the first DOCSIS 1.1-based hybrid POTS-to-VoIP-over-coax networks for a major German...

INDUSTRY OUTLOOK.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Optics Market: Slower, but Steady A rebound ahead? Despite market downturn in recent months, the market for DWDM systems will grow at a 28-percent CAGR over the next five years, according to a recent report from Insight Research. According...

SONET Hangs On.(SQNET/SDH equipment)(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Some say SONET has seen its day, but next-gen SQNET/SDH equipment will, capture 4 percent of a $20 billion market in 2000, according to KMI, which projects the next-gen portion of the nearly $45 billion SONET/SDH market to reach 38 percent in...

Wireless Data at Megabit Speed.(Sprint PCS)(Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 2001... In the United States, 3G wireless may finally be living up to all the hype. Sprint PCS recently demonstrated a call over a 1XEV-based network at speeds up to 2.4 Mbps at its test site in Lenexa, Kan., using Lucent's CDMA20001xEV-DO (1x...

New Tier-1 NAP to Connect the Americas.(network access point services from Terremark)(Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 2001... MIAMI--At the end of this month, a new IP exchange point for backbone providers in North and South America, ambitiously called the NAP of the Americas, will open for business in Miami. The impetus for this fifth NAP (network access point) is...

Gaining Validation.(Multiprotocol Label Switching, or MPLS)(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... With MPLS taking center stage as the all-IP network's QoS saviour, vendors are moving toward interoperability. Laurel Networks and Agilent Technologies defined a suite of MPLS standard testing specifications and interoperability agreements at...

Mobile Wireless on the Rise.(Technology Information)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Driven by rapid adoption of dual and trimode cellular phones, package minute deals and guaranteed handset upgrades, the U.S. cellular industry will grow continually in 2001. Strategy Analytics predicts that the industry's 24-percent annual...

Unified Messaging Is Tantalizing, But Remains Underused.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 1, 2001... NEW YORK--Everyone loves the concept behind unified messaging, but few use it or have access to it. Road warriors drool over the benefits of real-time message integration, while service providers dream of increased revenues and that elusive...

Network Giants Strike Deals.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... With all the interconnection deals being struck recently, it looks like there's no shortage of network capacity. Deutsche Telekom will buy two 2.5-Gbps wavelengths from Asia Global. Neutral CO provider Equinix squared deals with 360networks,...

Coming Together.(Finisar Corp completes acquisition of Shomiti Systems; AT and T negotiates with BT for purchase of Concert)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... The current economic downturn can't slow down everyone as shown by a number of providers and vendors striking merger and acquisition deals. AT&T is talking with British Telecom to take control of Concert, their $7 billion joint venture. Finisar...

Building a Service Innovation Engine.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 1, 2001... Service innovation has taken a back seat to technological progress in the telecom industry. Weak attempts at service innovation lead to sluggish revenue growth and low profit margins--bad results since investors are rediscovering...

Meet the New FCC Chairman.(Michael K. Powell)(Government Activity)
June 1, 2001... When President George W. Bush took office last January, he brought along popular retired Gen. Colin Powell as Secretary of State. Shortly after the inauguration, the general's son, Michael K. Powell, 37, accepted the President's nomination as...

Back talk.(Tony Thakur of Time Warner Telecom)(Company Operations)
June 1, 2001... A Conversation with Tony Thakur of Time Warner Telecom Q How many miles does your network span? A We have nearly 400,000 route miles of fiber in 39 markets and nearly 200,000 miles of regional fiber. We average 400 to 500 route miles...

PROVIDERS TAKE Baby Steps.(Automatic location identification)
June 1, 2001... Rather than enjoying an easy birth, location-based technology is being dragged into this world kicking and screaming. It certainly seems like a good idea: Find the nearest restaurant or cinema; keep track of children or expensive cargo like...

Hot Start-Ups 2001.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 1, 2001... Although it's never easy being a start-up, 2001 has been especially tough. It's not enough that these nascent companies must woo investors many times over, compete with the Big Guys' well-oiled marketing machines, and attract and retain the...

Advantage, Softswitch.(Technology Information)
June 1, 2001... Softswitches may be the best bet for generating new, differentiated services. Providing seamless, enhanced, next-gen services requires a new network with an infrastructure that allows service creation and implementation across various...

Remote Management: Qualifying the Loop.(Technology Information)
June 1, 2001... Remote loop management is critical for efficient provisioning and operation of residential DSL and offers a compelling ROI. In an ideal world, a residential customer places an order for DSL service, receives a self-installation modem kit...

Dynamic Provisioning: the New Mantra.(Technology Information)
June 1, 2001... In a commodity market, it's all about value-added services. Bandwidth is becoming a simple commodity and the downward price spiral is putting more and more pressure on service provider revenues. Providers must find new sources of strategic...

The Power of the Spoken Word.(corporate voice portals)(Technology Information)
June 1, 2001... Corporate voice portals offer new revenue paths for service providers. Internet voice portals hold great promise for service providers, especially in the enterprise where companies pay their bills on time and are more loyal than consumer...

Take the Risk out of Network Monitoring.(Technology Information)
June 1, 2001... Carriers, CLECs, the entire service provider genus (ISP, ASP, MSP, ITSP)--everyone understands they are vulnerable. All a company can do is wait until the NOC (network operations center) is notified of a network failure and respond....

Getting Edge Smart.(Technology Information)
June 1, 2001... Intelligent convergence at the customer premises brings enhanced services and profitability. With deregulation and the emergence of new and increased competition, service providers are finding it difficult to anchor a customer base and...

It's All in the Process.(building processes that leverage the telecom infrastructure)(Industry Trend or Event)
June 1, 2001... Building the processes that run the business that leverages the infrastructure is critical. Over the past six months, the telecom industry has been rocked by the demise of a dozen or more once-promising CLECs and ICPs (integrated...

Creating an Intelligent Optical Network.(Technology Information)
June 1, 2001... Enabling optical services and lowering cost of operations are key Studies have shown that carriers spend on average two to four times more on network operations and management than on network capital expenditures. Growth trends in...

There's More Than One Way to Build a POP.(Technology Information)
June 1, 2001... MultiPOP architectures open up markets where megaPOPs make no sense. Margins for basic Internet access are eroding quickly. To remain competitive, ISPs must offer more bandwidth and more value-added services, and they need to offer these...

Automation Key to Configuration.(configuration management software)(Technology Information)
June 1, 2001... Six critical components take the pain out of device configuration. ISPs have spent billions building their networks but are struggling for profitability because they lack automated tools to help them manage those networks. Management tools...

Raman Amplification in the All-Optical Network.(Technology Information)
June 1, 2001... The technology reemerges as a cost-effective way to expand capacity and distance. Raman amplification is getting new life in one of telecom's hottest areas--optical networking. With roots based on the Raman Effect documented more than 70...

Content Delivery Meets Voice.(Technology Information)
June 1, 2001... Recently only an idea, content-aware networks are now a fast growing Internet segment. "IM me-it's the best way to get in touch with me," That phrase speaks volumes about the ongoing tectonic shifts in the telecom world. Instant Messaging,...

A Holistic Approach to Wireless Buildout.(Technology Tutorial)(Tutorial)
June 1, 2001... It takes work on two fronts--RF and fixed telephony--to succeed. When building today's wireless networks, operators often place a premium on RF engineering and ignore the requirements of the network's fixed telephony side. The result is a...

The ASP Opportunity Blossoms.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 1, 2001... Some providers use ASPs to reduce IT costs; others boost revenue by becoming ASPs. In times of steep competition and shrinking profit margins from long-distance services and Internet access, one way for service providers to boost revenues...

New Breed IAD Stands on the Edge.(integrated access devices)(Technology Information)
June 1, 2001... Pushing network intelligence into the customer premises. To deliver converged services and graded SLAs for data applications, VPNs and Internet access cost effectively, carriers must stretch network intelligence from the edge into the...

Breaking the MAN Bottleneck.(metropolitan area network)(Technology Information)
June 1, 2001... Supercharged transport, switching enter metro. Today's MAN infrastructure was designed largely to handle voice traffic. SONET transport rings, on which MANs are based, provide the reliability needed for voice, but SONET, as it is...

Network Element Management Gets Classy.(Technology Information)
June 1, 2001... You can't have efficiency without sophistication. Increasing bandwidth demands placed on today's networks are forcing service providers to reassess their strategies to better serve their existing customers and gain new ones amidst stiff...

Wireless Optical Networking: Bandwidth and Beyond.(Technology Information)
June 1, 2001... The technology has emerged as one solution for the last-mile bottleneck, but it's no panacea. For many years, telephone lines were the narrowband solution serving the average user's needs, but that has changed. Driven by recent industry...

Atrica: Purpose-Built Optical Ethernet.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 2001... www.atrica.com While not even the most conservative carriers doubt that Ethernet is a cost-effective alternative to SONET, there is concern that most Ethernet solutions proposed for the MAN have not met carrier-class needs of scale. Santa...

Next-Gen Switch.(Telica Voice Packet Telephony Solution for the Plexus 9000)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2001... Telica www.telica.com Already offering high port densities per rack, Telica has augmented its Plexus 9000 platform with VoP (voice over packet) capabilities. What Telica broadly calls its Voice Packet Telephony Solution allows...

Edge Switch.(Quarry Technologies iQ4000 IP Service Edge Switch)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2001... Quarry Technologies www.quarrytech.com For service providers considering delivering value-added IP-based services, Quarry Technologies introduced the iQ4000 IP Service Edge Switch. The product, which Quarry says integrates well with...

10 GigE Ethernet Tester.(Agilent Technologies)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2001... Agilent Technologies www.agilent.com To help service providers speed the development of 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10 GigE) networks and services, Agilent Technologies introduced a line interface supporting 10-GigE WAN serial testing and a...

Network Management.(Telco Systems EdgeView EMS network management system)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2001... Telco Systems www.telco.com Telco Systems has introduced a new network management system for its EdgeLink line of products that provides a Web-based GUI for maps, alerts, network databases, reports, MIB browsing and administration. The...

Optical Wireless.(Optical Access TereScope 1000G free-space laser system)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2001... Optical Access www.opticalaccess.com To help service providers bring optical capacity to end users cut off from the metro optical network, Optical Access unveiled the TereScope 1000G free-space laser system, providing bidirectional...

TDR Testing.(Sunrise Telecom time domain reflectometer)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2001... Sunrise Telecom www.sunrisetelecom.com Sunrise Telecom said it now offers a TDR (time domain reflectometer) testing module for the Light Chassis version of its Sunset xDSL line of test equipment. Now users can identify and locate...

MTU GigE.(World Wide Packets LightingEdge Ethernet)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2001... World Wide Packets www.worldwidepackets.com World Wide Packets announced new Gigabit Ethernet products for the MTU/MDU markets. Offering up to one gigabit data transfer to the building and up to 100 Mbps to each unit over existing...

Voice/Data Router.(Vpacket Communications Vpacket 6100 Series)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2001... Vpacket Communications www.vpacket.com For service providers migrating from circuit- to packet-switched networking, Vpacket Communications says its 6100 Series voice/data router provides intelligent IP routing of voice and data over a...

SS7 Service.(Ariel BypaSS7)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2001... Ariel www.ariel.com Ariel is offering ISPs and CLECs an SS7 service as an alternative to having to operate and maintain their own SS7 infrastructure for terminating dial-up modem and ISDN subscriber calls. Called BypaSS7, the solution...

Test Modules.(Ixia load modules for the Ixia 1600T and 400C chassis)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2001... Ixia www.ixiacom.com Ixia has released a total of six new load modules for the Ixia 1600T and 400C chassis. One card provides an integrated solution for OC-192c POS (packet over SONET), OC-192c BERT and 10GBASE-W analysis. The latter...

Transmux Gard.(Astral Point STS-1 transmultiplexer module)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2001... Astral Point www.astralpoint.com Astral Point is shipping a STS-1 transmultiplexer module for aggregating voice circuits over a SONET network. The STS-1 module, which complements the distributed digital cross-connect capability of...

Network Bridge.(TollBridge TB300)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2001... TollBridge Technologies www.tollbridgetech.com VoIP gateway vendor TollBridge has announced a new product to help MSOs bridge the gap between a DOCSIS (data over cable service interface specification) network and the PSTN. The...

Off-Line.(John St. Amand, Telica CEO)(People)
June 1, 2001... Industry leaders share their opinions, philosophies of life and off-hours interests John St. Amand It seems a bit ironic that John St. Amand's childhood mentor was his godfather, a man he "admired and respected because of his focus on...

Thinking outside the Box.(transport integration)
June 1, 2001... A nontraditional single-switch fabric may be the most effective transport integration strategy. Local service providers face a tremendous challenge addressing their backlogs for current services (which run primarily over T1s and T3s) and...

Screaming for Stream Services.(Technology Information)
June 1, 2001... Providers must escape the wavelength services model. Service provider profitability is under attack due to the influx of new entrants and the abundant bandwidth catalyzed by advanced optics. The imperative to evolve from commodity bandwidth...

Multiband Switches: The Best of Both Worlds.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 1, 2001... Next-gen switches enable the migration from SONET to the all-optical network. Carriers want to migrate their networks to architectures that support new traffic, while leveraging and maximizing the value of their current investments (i.e.,...

The Advent of 3G Optical Switches.(Technology Information)
June 1, 2001... The cure-all: combining optical transport and switching. The advent of DWDM signaled the beginning of a dramatic change in network design and consumer expectations of the Internet. DWDM systems have progressed from two wavelengths to 16 and...

Delivering on 40 G.(Technology Information)
June 1, 2001... A host of Challenges emerge as speed and density increase. The stakes have risen and the race is on to bring cost-effective, multiterabit systems out of the lab and into customer networks. To meet service providers' growing need to create...

More Relief for the MAN?(metropolitan area network)(Technology Information)
June 1, 2001... A dynamic, smart, all-optical network is the answer. While DWDM has proven efficient and cast-effective in long-haul networks, in metro and regional networks the dynamic nature of traffic demands, many types of service interfaces, more...

Routing at the Speed of Light.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 1, 2001... Ultrafast routers bring simplicity to the optical domain. As the deployment of Internet-based applications continues to increase rapidly, service providers are feverishly looking for unique, cost-effective methods of supporting...

A New Business Case for the Metro.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 1, 2001... Next-gen equipment could be CLECs' saving grace. The economic case for CLEC use of multiservice SONET/SDH bandwidth managers is causing a radical shift in network engineering. The benefits and savings associated with next-gen equipment are...

Full-Spectrum WDM Goes the Distance.(Technology Information)
June 1, 2001... A solution for 500 km and beyond. So far, carriers have faced exploding demand for connectivity with traditional regeneration-based WDM. But as electronic regeneration becomes more sophisticated, the price of maintaining transmission...

ETHERNET THE KEY TO NEW SERVICE REVENUES.(Optical Ethernet services)(Technology Information)
June 1, 2001... BOOST PROFITABILITY WITH NEXT-GENERATION PACKET SERVICES The Ethernet LAN is pushing into the optical WAN as inexorably as the tides, and service providers around the world are beginning to exploit this powerful union. The service and...